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Chains of Fire by Christina Dodd


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The latest of the Chosen Ones series is the best so far. Samual Faa and Isabelle Mason have been at each other's throats since the beginning of the series but until now, no one knew the depth of their feelings. This is the best of love/hate relationships. Though both were adopted and grew up in the same house, their upbringing couldn't have been more different.


Isabelle is the protected daughter of one of America's first families and takes her obligations very seriously; while Samuel is a gyspy of indetermintae origin and also the butler's son. They have been connected since their first meaning and the connection has only grown stronger thru the years despite their continual betrayal of eachother.


I love the way Dodd takes us back to where Sam and Isabelle began; it gives the reader a chance to know the characters better but at the same times, stays within the action of the story. Each one of novels builds from the last---both they myth of the Chosen Ones and the personal connection between the characters. Another thing that is wonderful about the Chosen Ones series is the weave of world myth, the battle of good versus evil, and the presence of God. Dood does this in a very subtle way, as not to smash the reader in the face with a message but still managing to connect and anchor the entire story to a Christian senssbility (or at least that's what I got from it).


Great book and I can't wait for the next in the series. I hope it's about Charisma and Alekandr, which would prove to be a complicated and satisfying story.




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Storm of Shadows, Chains of Ice and Chains of Fire, all by Christina Dodd. Now that I have all of these, I can start reading in succession.

Delaney's Desert Sheikh by Brenda Jackson


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This was the one that started it all: The Westmoreland's. It was also the first AA that I'd seen from this imprint and I searched high and low for this book and finally bought it from an Ebay seller.  Delaney and Jamal are on a collision course with one another and neither one of them is going to give up the upperhand. Jamal is one of the sexiest men that Jackson has ever put down on paper (except for Ashton Sinclair); he's the son of a sheikh and will someday rule in his father'a place which is why falling for Delaney is not such a good idea. For Delaney, the baby of the Westmoreland clan and a medical student,  her romance with Jamal couldn't have come at a worse time.
This is my favorite in the Westmoreland series.

 I wonder why it took me so long to read this book. I saw it mentioned somewhere and checked it out from my local library; I've had this book checked out for almost two months and never read it. Finally, I made myself open it up. I was instantly amazed and finished in two days.
I don't even know how to describe what happens in this book except to say that it's a path to wisdom. Santiago is a shepherd who is called upon to go on a journey  to find a treasure but the treasure is not what he thinks it is. He encounters a king, a merchant, an alchemist, and a desert warrior who all teach him something different about the nature of wisdom.

This is another book for the shelves. Put this along side other modern classics, Beloved, The Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, and 100 Years of Solitude.

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Nauti and Wild by Lora Leigh


Super, seriously HOT stories.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars







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